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The Sunday Times (Interiors)
November 2004

See the light
Technology can bring natural brightness to even the darkest of rooms, discovers Eleanor Flegg

There’s a miracle supplement that can improve our lives enormously if we get extra doses of it. We are scientifically proven to feel better, work harder and get more out of life with it. Students study more effectively when they absorb more of it, and office workers are absent for fewer days in the year. The wonder ingredient is naturally occurring daylight. The more we get, the better our lives become.

But with many of us living in dark apartments and semis, it seems designers have only recently rediscovered this. Now there’s a new movement afoot — “daylighting”, which uses new technology to change the way buildings are constructed and designed. Daylight can now even be piped into our windowless basements, using uncomplicated, relatively inexpensive techniques.

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